*Bam*

“Cough… Cough…” Long Xiang coughed hard after Ling Yun slammed her onto the ground, but she immediately wiped the blood from her mouth before cursing at him. “Shameless! You cheated!”

“Hey, how can you say that I cheated?” Ling Yun answered by shaking his head. “There is no prohibition on me using my bloodline in the first place, so it’s not wrong if I use it, right?”

“Tch!” Long Xiang became irritated listening to his words. “Humph! I don’t want to fight you anymore!”

“Hey, wait-” Long Xiang suddenly disappeared from Ling Yun’s sight. “Damn it! How am I supposed to look for Yueling and the others?”

“You should suppress that woman with your bloodline, Mo Chen.” Yue Tu said as she and Hu Ling floated towards Ling Yun.

“En, that’s true.” Ling Yun nodded as he let out a soft sigh, especially since his map was completely useless in that mist. “Let’s go back to the others, and we’ll continue our journey right away.”

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As soon as they arrived there, Yi Mingxia ran to her son and observed his body from top to bottom. “Are you hurt?”

“We fought without using cultivation, so I wasn’t injured in the slightest.”

“That’s good.” Yi Mingxia breathed a sigh of relief after hearing that.

Zhiyu Yushen then asked him. “What about Yueling and the others? Where are the beasts keeping them?”

“I don’t know.” Ling Yun shook his head. “That woman suddenly ran away, and I didn’t have time to restrict her.”

“I see.” Zhiyu Yushen nodded in understanding. “We can only move forward, but we have to find them quickly, or those beasts will eat them.”

After that, they continued their journey, but their journey became smoother than before, as no beasts attacked them again. Even so, they still had difficulty finding a way out due to the misleading formations in that place, especially since none of them understood about formation arrays in detail.

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Meanwhile, Long Xiang had returned to Tian Lanyi’s side. “Tch! Your master is truly shameless, Big Sis! We had agreed not to use our cultivation, but he used his bloodline power to suppress me for a moment!”

“Haha.” Tian Lanyi laughed at that. “After all, we don’t need to use our cultivation to use our bloodline, so he’s not wrong if he uses it against you.”

“Tch!” Long Xiang gritted her teeth in annoyance. “What are you going to do now, Big Sis? Are you going to meet and lead him there?”

“No.” Tian Lanyi shook her head. “We will wait for him in the garden.”

“Then what about those three women? Won’t those beasts do anything to them?”

Tian Lanyi shrugged her shoulders. “Their safety is none of my concern, so we don’t need to care about them.”

Long Xiang was not surprised to hear Tian Lanyi’s answer. “However, your master will be furious and slaughter them if those beasts do something to those women, and this place will lose its protectors. After all, the ancients placed them to protect the garden, and this realm will become chaotic if they die in his hands, so we can’t let that happen, Big Sis.”

“I know that.” Tian Lanyi then fell silent for a while before speaking again. “All right then, we will go save those three women, and we will take them to the garden directly.”

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‘Ugh! Damn it! Why are these beasts capturing us?’ Tian Yueling, who was hanging from the ceiling of the cave, wondered in her heart as she looked at several beasts below her. However, she couldn’t recognize their type, as they only existed in the mist. ‘Tch! How can there be beasts like them in this place? Moreover, that beast with a plant on its back is really disgusting, and that plant almost looks like a man-eater plant.’

Yun Gongzhu, who was beside her, also observed the beasts, and she continued to wonder in her heart. ‘What kind of beasts are they really? Are those beasts the protectors of this place? But who brought them to this place? Why do they never appear in the outside world? What will they do to us next?’

On the other hand, Jiao Lu kept her eyes closed, and her body kept shaking in fear. After all, those beasts are powerful and terrifying, and they have also sealed their cultivation. ‘Shit! Why have I had such bad luck in the last few days? Previously, I was abandoned by that damn woman in that cursed village, and now I have fallen into the hands of these terrible beasts! What will they do to us? Are they going to eat us alive?’

However, Tian Yueling and Yun Gongzhu raised their eyebrows as soon as they saw the beasts curled up on the ground, and their bodies were shaking quite violently. ‘What exactly happened to them? Why are they suddenly acting strange like that?’

Suddenly, they saw two large shadows from the entrance of the cave, and they were surprised to see two women who were none other than Tian Lanyi and Long Xiang walking side by side casually. ‘Who are they? Why were the beasts so afraid of them? Are they the guardians of this place?’

“A dragon?” As she opened her eyes, Jiao Lu muttered softly because Long Xiang’s bloodline had severely suppressed hers.

Tian Yueling and Yun Gongzhu turned to her in surprise. “Are you sure those two women are dragons?”

“No, only that brown-haired woman with a ponytail is a dragon, but she’s not a full-fledged dragon, and she has another bloodline.” Jiao Lu then looked at Tian Lanyi. “The purple-haired woman is a wolf, but I don’t know what kind of wolf she is, and her bloodline is much stronger than the other one.”

“A wolf?” Tian Yueling and Yun Gongzhu looked at Tian Lanyi, but their bodies trembled, and cold sweat dripped from their foreheads when they saw her eyes. ‘What a frightening woman!’

“Release them.”

“Yes.” Long Xiang directly waved her hand, and the tree branch that tied the hands of the three women immediately shattered.

“Ouch!” The three women screamed in pain as soon as they fell to the ground, but they immediately stood up and huddled together.

“Who are you guys?” Tian Yueling asked them.

However, Tian Lanyi did not answer her question and turned to leave, and Long Xiang immediately followed him as he said to them. “Follow us, or we will change our minds and leave the three of you here.”

“Are we really going to follow them?” Jiao Lu asked as she hugged Yun Gongzhu’s arm.

Tian Yueling shrugged and followed the two women directly. “You can stay here if you really want to be eaten by those beasts, but I don’t want to be eaten by them, so I will follow them.”

“We have no other choice now, so we have to follow them.” Yun Gongzhu said as she pulled Jiao Lu with her, but she repeatedly looked at the beasts. ‘Who is that wolf woman? Why did she save us from them?’

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“Do you think your master can get through this mist, Big Sis?” Long Xiang asked as she walked leisurely beside Tian Lanyi.

Tian Lanyi nodded to her. “As I told you before, my master should be able to pass through this place without breaking a sweat, but some of those women are holding him back, and he has no intention of using his bloodline.”

‘Master?’ The three women walking behind them were really surprised to hear Tian Lanyi’s words. ‘Could it be that Mo Chen is her master? Is that why they saved us? But why didn’t he help him get through this place if he really was her master?’

“En, you’re probably right about that, especially since three of them haven’t swallowed his yang qi.” Long Xiang replied as she nodded in understanding. “Anyway, what exactly is the mystery hidden in the garden, Big Sis? Why did the ancients place those beasts in this place? And why did you choose to wait for your master in this place several months ago?”

Tian Lanyi stopped walking and turned to Long Xiang. “There is an item that belongs to the old dragon there, and the ancients created the garden on purpose to hide it, so they placed those beasts in this place to prevent people from reaching that place. However, those beasts always act as they please, so there are quite a few people who have reached that place before.” 𝙡𝙞𝓫𝒓𝙚𝒂𝓭.𝓬𝒐𝓶

“An item?” Not only was Long Xiang surprised to hear that, but the three women were also surprised to hear that. “If you knew there was an item belonging to that dragon in the garden, why didn’t you take it?”

“I’m just a descendant of that dragon servant, so I don’t have the ability to take that item, and only my master can take it.” Long Xiang nodded in understanding after hearing that. “That’s why I decided to wait here after my sisters informed me that our master was on his way here, and I was sure that he would come here. However, I didn’t expect that he would come this fast; even his cultivation had reached the requirements to unlock the next seal.”

“The next seal?” Long Xiang looked at her with a confused look.

Tian Lanyi nodded to her. “My current master is not yet complete, and he has to open some seals in his bloodline first. Besides, he also has to collect some items belonging to the old dragon; only then can he become a complete dragon.”

– To Be Continued –